Venice Magic Slot
Think of Venice and the chances are that water is one of the first visuals that pop into your mind's eye. It’s a city that is made up of a number of small islands and separated by a network of canals. It relies on the bridges that link them together and the main mode of transportation is water based. In a new water themed video slot, Venice Magic by Side City Studios has plenty of the wet stuff with a little romance thrown in for good measure, and why not as it's a romantic city.
Its mobile optimised for play and there are plenty of high paying treasures on the 5 reels. With 25 win lines to play for in this medium to high variance slot, not only does it look good, it sounds good too. Carnival time in Venice as a very old event that takes place once a year, but it's in the days of old, when Waltzes were the pop music of the time that this casino slot machine is based. Centuries old landmarks and familiar objects feature in addition to free slot games, expanding wilds and big multipliers,
Being Incognito
The foremost must have accessory for carnival is a mask. Traditionally used as an attempt to make all equal socially, it added mystery and intrigue and encouraged romantic dalliances. Masks were in a number of different sizes and looks with full face ones, eye masks and mask with huge beak like noses that have origins during the plaque, and the characters on the reels wear them.
There’s a beautiful lady who is wearing a delicate eye mask, a man wearing a green coat and matching tricorn hat who is wearing a golden full face mask, and a couple who are wearing the beak type masks seen standing under the moon. Accessories of a fan made of feathers, a necklace and eye mask, are joined by a heart, club, diamond and spade as symbols from a pack of cards.
The last of the base game regular symbols is Lion of Venice which is a gold statue. The remaining symbols, which have special properties, are the scatter symbols of a zodiac wheel which is basically a wheel with signs of the zodiac on it, and the wild symbols. The joker is wild as a multiplier, and the tower is an expanding wild.
Rotating Wheels of Fate
With having two wilds, they don’t play together. One or the other can randomly play during any spin in the base game. When 3 scatters appear on the reels from a single spin, the free games feature is triggered and the zodiac wheels form together on a new screen for a side game. This decides which wild symbol will go on to play the free games round, how many free spins there will be and what kind of multiplier is to be added to any successful combinations.
If the tower is picked, it will make 1 or 2 reels into wild reels at the start of each spin. If it’s the joker, he will still act as a x2 multiplier but with a game multiplier already in play for winning lines, if the joker is used in a winning match, he will double up the game multiplier. Stakes are between 0,25 and 250, and depending on what is set in play at the time of the feature trigger, there is some serious money to be made from the feature which is going to be of interest to gamblers looking to cash out big style.
Royalty like to Party Too
A nicely designed game is the free Royal Masquerade video slot from the home of Play’n Go. With wins up to 500,000 coins it’s another water themed slot that is also set in Venice at Carnival time. It has 5 reels with 10 paylines and betting between 0.01 and 100 for the total bet. The game has traditional card symbols that would make up a royal flush if this was a poker game. Other symbols are character based with guests of the masquerade ball all wearing their masks.
The wild symbol is a guest wearing an elaborate costume with plague mask and the scatter is a lady with a golden full face mask. As the free spins trigger, coloured paper confetti rains down and there's a gamble feature included with the standard format of guess the suit for x4 or colour for x2 of the next card to be turned over.
The Joker Is Wild
The phrase ‘the Joker is wild’ may be more associated with a game of poker, but as another popular name for slot machines is a pokie, its close enough for us. Venice Magic is a pokie where the Joker really is wild. He’s quite scary looking with his shiny face of many colours and has a somewhat manic expression. It may just be that he’s been enjoying the sauce too much at the carnival, but there’s no denying his important role for the big wins to get the virtual coins flying. We really enjoyed playing this lavishly packaged slot with its bold seamless 3D graphics and music that had us foot tapping in a ‘123, 123’ waltz rhythm as we played. Overall, it a very enjoyable game to fill your boots with rewards
